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Léon Charles Thévenin
French telegraph engineer (1857–1926)
Léon Charles Thévenin | |
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Léon Charles Thévenin | |
| Born | (1857-03-30)March 30, 1857 Meaux, France |
| Died | September 21, 1926 (1926-09-22) (aged 69) Paris, France |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Telegraph |
| Significant advance | Thévenin's theorem |
Léon Charles Thévenin (French:[tev(ə)nɛ̃]; 30 March 1857, Meaux, Seine-et-Marne – 21 September 1926, Paris) was a French telegraph engineer who extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits.
Biography
Born in Meaux, France, Thévenin entered the École polytechnique in Paris in 1876. Upon graduation, in 1878, he joined the Corps of telegraph Engineers (which subsequently became the French PTT).
There, he initially worked on the development of long distance underground telegraph lines.
Appointed as a teaching inspector at the École supérieure de télégraphie in 1882, he became increasingly interested in the prob
